"No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition."

-- Claude Monet

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“Refugees are threatening, not just to Americans, but also in many countries the world over. And it's partially because, unlike immigrants, refugees do not choose where they're going to go or why they're fleeing, and they are unwanted populations. They bring with them the stigma of disaster.”
“I'd never won the Stanley Cup so I asked Cournoyer right after the final if this was like winning the Cup. He said, 'This is ten times better.' I believed him.”
“Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
“I wanna rock right now.”

Source : Song: It Takes Two
“People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.”
“I have tried very hard to find meaning in what I do, but I have found instead a vast and limitless nothingness. I tried to embrace the nothingness, but it slipped through my grasp, and now there is nothing where the nothingness was. This may sound meaningful, but it isn't.”

Source : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.
“The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters”

Source : Thomas Cahill (2010). “How the Irish Saved Civilization”, p.129, Anchor

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